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SCHOOLS

Schools are one of our favorite places to bring meaningful design to since they are the hub of children’s lives and learning for so many hours. What should be more important than having an engaging space that has the aesthetics and beauty purposed to the value of their time? From elementary school bathrooms, gyms and libraries, even playgrounds, middle school entries, stairwells, quotes and cafeterias, to high school sports medicine rooms, and more, school design not only uplifts the students, but teacher morale and all who enter!

 

Loudoun School for Advanced Studies: Stairwells

“Concrete Unexpected”
Loudoun School for Advanced Studies, Ashburn, VA

This spacious modern school was beautiful in every way except for its dark red concrete stairwells, void of personality and color. To match the feel of the school, uniquess needed to be added to these blank spaces! Working in collaboration with Art Club with guidance, students designed and painted three of the empty stairwells into amazing works of art. On the highest stairwell, a Senior Wall was created so that each graduating senior could paint a block as part of a tradition for years to come. In the last stairwell, Fun Places took a collection of doodles and creative designs and illustrations found left on white boards around the school over the year and included them all in one large “doodle” mural, which has 12 ports of touch-activated sounds that play when approperiate locations on the mural are touched. Technology + art! Now the stairwells are much more interesting and represent the school well!

Danielle Ferrin